The nature of the world and of man / by W.C. Allee [and others] ; H.H. Newman, editor.

Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, [1926], ©1926.

xxiv, 566 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

On cover: By sixteen members of the University of Chicago faculty

Astronomy, by F.R. Moulton.--The origin and early stages of the earth, by R.T. Chamberlin.--Geological processes and the earth's history, by J.H. Bretz.--Energy: radiation and atomic structure, by H.B. Lemon.--The nature of chemical processes, by J. Stieglitz.--The nature and origin of life, by H.H. Newman.--The bacteria, by E.O. Jordan.--Evolution of the plant kingdom, by M.C. Coulter.--Interactions between plants and their environment, by H.C. Cowles.--The evolution of the invertebrates, by W.C. Allee.--The evolution of the vertebrates, by A.S. Romer.--The coming of man, by F.C. Cole.--The factors of organic evolution, by H.H. Newman.--Human inheritance, by E.R. Downing.--Man from the point of view of his development and structure, by G.W. Bartelmenz.--The dynamics of living processes, by A.J. Carlson.--Mind in evolution, by C.H. Judd.